NASA dropped this bombshell announcement in a little-
heralded news release coyly entitled “Solar Activity
Forecast for Next Decade Favorable for Exploration.”
In other words, NASA tried to make it sound like good
news.

In the release, dated 12 June 2019, NASA described
the upcoming decline in solar activity as a window of
opportunity for space exploration instead of
acknowledging the disastrous consequences such a
decline could wreak on civilization.

Here are some direct quotes from the news release:

The Sun’s activity rises and falls in an 11-year
cycle. The forecast for the next solar cycle says it
will be the weakest of the last 200 years. (Emphasis
added) The maximum of this next cycle – measured in
terms of sunspot number, a standard measure of solar
activity level – could be 30 to 50% lower than the
most recent one. The results show that the next cycle
will start in 2020 and reach its maximum in 2025.

Sunspots are regions on the Sun with magnetic fields
thousands of times stronger than the Earth’s. Fewer
of them at the point of maximum solar activity means
fewer dangerous blasts of radiation.

The new research was led by Irina Kitiashvili, a
researcher with the Bay Area Environmental Research
Institute at NASA’s Ames Research Center, in
California’s Silicon Valley. It combined observations
from two NASA space missions – the Solar and
Heliospheric Observatory and the Solar Dynamics
Observatory – with data collected since 1976 from the
ground-based National Solar Observatory.

In admitting that solar activity during sunspot-cycle
25 could be the weakest in 200 years, NASA was
effectively forecasting a return to Dalton Minimum
(1790-1830) conditions. But the release gives no
mention of the ferocious cold, no mention of the
disastrous crop losses, no mention of the ensuing
starvation and famine, no mention of the wars over
food, no mention of the powerful earthquakes, no
mention of the catastrophic volcanic eruptions during
the Dalton Minimum.

We’re talking about massive earthquakes such as the
1811-12 New Madrid Fault earthquakes, which caused
the Mississippi River to run backward, created
Reelfoot Lake, and rang church bells in Boston

We’re talking about killer volcanic events such as
the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. The
following year, 1816, is variously known as “The Year
Without a Summer,” “The ‘Poverty Year,’ and ‘Eighteen
Hundred and Froze To Death.’[1] Even though average
global temperatures fell only 0.4–0.7 °C (0.72–1.26
°F), the resultant volcanic winter brought major food
shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.[3]

The Canadian journal Macleans describes Canada’s
climate during the Dalton Climate Minimum.

A soft rain began to fall in modern-day eastern
Canada on June 5, 1816. By evening, it had turned to
snow and, by the next day, Kingston, Montreal and
parts of Quebec were blanketed. Some reports describe
two-foot snow drifts in Quebec City. On June 8, the
Quebec Gazette reported, “the whole of the
surrounding country was in the same state, having the
appearance of the middle of December.”

Birds, sheep, gardens and fruit trees all perished in
the cold. In August, some lakes and rivers were still
frozen as far south as Pennsylvania. Hastily planted
barley and wheat crops yielded little before the real
winter came around once again, not that it ever
properly left. In southern Canada and New England,
frost was recorded in every single month of the
year….Entire farming villages in eastern North
America, starving and weakened, picked up and moved
west.

Instead of mentioning all of this potential mayhem,
NASA instead rhapsodizes about the “good news for
mission planners who can schedule human exploration
missions during periods of lower radiation.”

It may be good news for mission planners, but for the
rest of us, look out!

While our clueless politicians stumble over each
other in their misquided attempts to combat ‘global
warming’ they remain blissfully unaware that we may
well be headed into a little ice age.

This is no time to be destroying the energy we need
to operate our factories, no time to be destroying
the energy we need run our medical facilities, no
time to be destroying the energy we need to grow our
food, no time to be destroying the energy we need to
heat our homes.

As I have warned so many times before, I fear that
we’ll be fighting the streets for food long before
we’re covered by ice